Let's Talk About Japan And Sickness Masks kotaku.com

Prev Next View AllFirst time visitors notice them right away: Sickness masks.
Screenshot : OtokomuSo what’s the deal with Japan and sickness masks?
For that same reason, the stereotype is that robbers in Japan often wear sickness masks and sunglasses to hide their identities.
According to a 2011 poll done in Tokyo’s Shibuya, out of a hundred young Japanese women wearing sickness masks, thirty-one of them were wearing them for show .
Her impersonations showed how sickness masks could be fashionable, and she even produced a line of masks.